Safdar, You can run the navigation stack in conjunction with gmapping, see http://www.ros.org/wiki/gmapping, to run without a static map. Instead of running the map_server and amcl, gmapping will provide the map and localization information to the navigation stack. As far as exploration goes, there is an exploration stack that uses frontier based exploration, http://www.ros.org/wiki/exploration, that may serve your needs. However, its been a long time since I ran the exploration code, so I'm not sure how well it will really work. You could also, of course, write your own if you find that it doesn't suit your needs. Hope this helps, Eitan On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:42 AM, safdar_zaman wrote: > > Hi all, > I have done indoor navigation with map, where i made map of the > environment, > then using navigation stack I moved Robot location to location by giving > coordinates from the map. > Now I want the Robot to explorer an indoor environment to search for > something with specifying any location to go on. Is it possible without > having prior map? Or any other useful idea? > regards > -- > View this message in context: > http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/expolring-the-indoor-environment-without-having-prior-map-tp2247698p2247698.html > Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >